Ticking Time-Saved Clock — effect skill for numbers & charts

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Clock-style digits slide as seconds tick, timing the task live on screen.

What it does

Built on Sliding Number by motion-primitives, MIT. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

A small mono timer in a corner (00:00 → 00:38) with digits sliding vertically; it stops and pops when the task finishes.

When: Prove speed claims in real time: "rendered in 38 seconds".

Watch out: Do not speed up the footage while the timer claims real time; keep them honest or label "sped up 4×".

Timing: Digit slide 0.2–0.3 s per tick; final pop 0.2 s.

Also called: sliding clock digits, timer, live time counter

In FFmpeg

-vf "drawtext=text='%{pts\:gmtime\:0\:%M\\\:%S}':x=w-tw-60:y=60:fontsize=48:fontcolor=white:box=1:[email protected]:boxborderw=12"

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add number-pop-in

Derive the shown seconds from tl.time() so it matches the footage exactly.

In Remotion

const s = Math.floor(frame / fps);
const mm = String(Math.floor(s/60)).padStart(2,'0'), ss = String(s%60).padStart(2,'0');

In CapCut

Text → Text templates → search "timer"/"stopwatch"; place top right and match its length to the clip.

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/952535e7abc4/lib-motion-primitives-sliding-number.mp4 — Preview of the Sliding Number component that builds this take (credit: Captured from the library’s own demo page (Motion Primitives), https://motion-primitives.com/docs/sliding-number)

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